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1 .Regularity in Serving Meal:

1 .Regularity in Serving Meal:. Cooked meal given to primary and upper primary children regularly. 2. Trends:. It was observed during meal serving among present children took 15,512 (90%) in Primary and 10820(82.5%)

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1 .Regularity in Serving Meal:

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  1. 1.Regularity in Serving Meal: • Cooked meal given to primary and upper primary children regularly. 2. Trends: • It was observed during meal serving among present • children took 15,512 (90%) in Primary and 10820(82.5%) • and 13222 (89.5%) in Primary and 8750 (80.7%) in Upper • Primary schools in North west Delhi and west Delhi. • Opted option not followed in all sampled districts.

  2. 3. Regularity in delivering food grains(at) to school/supplier’s kitchen level. • Directorate of Education’s appointed Mid-day meal • suppliers received food grains one month in advance. • MCD appointed suppliers received food grains • 30 to 40 days after the meals were served. • Suppliers reported that most of the time food grain • received as per the marked/indicated weight from FCI • godown.

  3. 4. Regularity in Delivering cooking costto school/ MDM supplier. • MCD appointed MDM suppliers reported that they • receive cooking costs on monthly basis. • Directorate of Education’s appointed MDM suppliers • receive cooking costs after 40 t0 50 days. • MDM supplier reported that some DOE schools • delayed in preparing bills. • Cooking cost payments are made through banking • channel.

  4. 5. Social Equity: • It was observed the children eat meals together and • no discrimination is practiced in this regard.

  5. 6. Variety of Menu • About 50% MCD and 5% Schools of Directorate of Education • in North West Delhi and about 50% MCD and 36% Schools of • Directorate of Education in west Delhi have displayed weekly • menu with details address of MDM suppliers. • Aided schools have not displayed weekly menu with details • address of MDM suppliers. • Meals served on six working days Monday to Saturday • comprise three days Rice based and three days wheat • based meals. • About 70% children in North West Delhi and 73% in • West Delhi did not prefer Halwa (wheat based Meal) • owing to substandard quality.

  6. 7. Quality and Quantity of Meal: • Invariably the quality of meals not satisfactory and the • quantity served was tends to be less than as per the • regulations. • The quality of the puri tended to be less than satisfactory • machine-made puris tend to be hard and sticky. • Upper primary school children least prefer MDMs owing to • sub standard quality and taste.

  7. 8.School Health Programme: • Micro nutrients and de-worming tablets were given to • MCD primary school children's in the last six • months. • Aided schools children are not covered under scheme . • Children’s Health cards are not maintained in any • sampled school.

  8. 9. Status of Cooks: • MDM Cooked and served by NGOs and charitable • Trusts appointed by the Education Departments. • . Suppliers have appointed helper to serve meal to • children. • Helpers are not appointed as per GOI norms. • The number of helpers are inadequate in many cases, • helpers were unable to serve meal all the children during • the break due to shortage of time.

  9. 10. Infrastructure: • There are no kitchen sheds in schools. MDM provided • to children through centralised kitchen . • Suppliers have set - up centralized Kitchens. • LPG used for cooking. • Most of the children carry drinking water from their • home.

  10. 11. Safety and Hygiene: • In general, the environment of MDM kitchens in terms of safety and hygiene in cooking and storage could be said to be good. i.e. six points on scale of one to ten. • Children not asked to wash hands before meals due to constraint of time. • Teacher supervision during meal distribution tend to be insufficient .

  11. 12. Community participation: • Participation of parents and community monitoring, supervision and distribution of MDM was generally poor in schools. • It was observed that most of the schools teachers/ community participants do not taste meals before distribution among children. • Community member/VKS/PTA had poor awareness levels on MDM entitlement of cooked meal prescribed by department.

  12. 13. Management Information System (MIS): • About 51%DOE and 56% MCD schools have maintained MDM register. • Majority of MDM in-charge had poor awareness of entitlement and norms prescribed by the department. • No records maintained of cooked meal received in DOE and aided schools. • Training was not imparted to the MDM in-charge/principals on maintaining of MDM information and register in DOE/aided schools.

  13. 14. Staffing: • Independent officer not engaged at district /zonal level by Directorate of Education or MCD. 15.Financial Management: • Mid day meal supplier did not shown maintenance of account during MI Kitchen visit. THANKS Presentation by: T.K Singh, Project coordinator Centre for the Study of Development Societies, 29, Rajpur Road – 110054, Delhi Mobile No: 9871205976, Email ID : tksingh2@rediffmail.com

  14. 15.Financial Management: • Mid day meal supplier did not shown maintenance of account during MI Kitchen visit. THANKS Presentation by: T.K Singh, Project coordinator Centre for the Study of Development Societies, 29, Rajpur Road – 110054, Delhi Mobile No: 9871205976, Email ID : tksingh2@rediffmail.com

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